On June 9, 1826, the forces of Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II, the sultan of Ottoman administrative reforms and aka Sultan Adli, deployed in the horse field in Istanbul where Janissaries forces that ...

At the turn from the Middle Ages to Modern History, the Army of the Ottoman Empire was the most dominant military force in the World. Entire Empires and Kingdoms disappeared on their marching route.

Goodwin, the author of a well-received history of the Ottoman Empire, Lords of the Horizons (1999), makes a welcome shift to fiction with this impressive first of a new mystery series set in the ...

On May 19th, the streets of New York will be strewn in red and white for the Turkish American Association Federation's 31st Turkish Day March and Festival. Chairman of the Turkish American Association ...

ISTANBUL--Turkey's march to join the European Union increasingly resembles the Ottoman's fabled janissary band, the mehter platoon: moving two steps forward, then one back. Ankara and Brussels struck ...

Born from conquest, trained from childhood, and loyal only to the Sultan—the Janissaries were the backbone of the Ottoman war machine. Read Joe Biden doctor's full statement on refusing to testify I’m ...

GIJON, Spain, July 27 (Reuters Life!) - Only a eunuch could have worked as a detective in 1830s Istanbul at the heart of the then-Ottoman Empire, says British author Jason Goodwin. In "The Janissary ...

ISTANBUL - After Topkapı Palace’s weapons section closed its doors in December for a renovation, daily Hürriyet reported Monday that there would also be some high-tech additions such as holographic ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN)-- More than 80 years after his family was ordered from the country, the grandson of one of the last Ottoman sultans was buried Saturday as hundreds of admirers looked on.